I watched the Team cycling road race,and was disappointed GB failed to live up to all the media hype,but a glimmer of hope for the future was hearing/reading that Cavendish was going to be racing in todays Individual road races as he is reputed to be an awesome sprinter.I was again disappointed as no Cavendish in the list of racers,but that rapidly vanished when Chris Froome got bronze then Wiggins shot over the finish line to get gold.So my question is....what happened to Cavendish?

(I would hate to think he'd decided that victory in the Tour de France was all he needed on his race CV)